yes the candles and particularly the amount of cuddly toys that have been put against the wall of the riverboat station here in just upstream from where the ball gary assange this was to be its stopping point after its pleasure cruise up the volga and thousands of people yesterday came to pay their respects to those who lost their lives hundreds of people keep streaming here to lay flowers and to try and remember the people who died in that tragedy for more on the background of the tragedy how it happened and its effects will go to my report. this is the happy seem that should have seen this ship is designed almost identically to the bulgaria this room almost identical to the one that children on that ship played in but for whatever reason their fate was very different.

as crowds gathered in remembrance of those killed by the sinking of the volga pleasure boat. it was the younger victims that seemed to cast the longest shadow. these schoolgirls had lost one of their classmates. the most we studied together for a year she never had arguments with anyone she was a very kind girl and was always ready to help. as divers reached the playroom one of the bokhari is upper decks they found the bodies of the children that had gathered there just before the boat sunk. in that once inside the boat the bodies were everywhere in the corridors and cab of the us most of them were wearing the life rafts divers now have the awful task of bringing the bodies to the surface

those left behind can only wonder at how fast their families were torn apart. our colleague was on that ship she went on a cruise together with her family husband five year old son and also she was pregnant and was to deliver her second baby in august says newtown d. yet only her husband managed to survive she and her son died. and for those children left suddenly without parents the terrible truth they may not be able to comprehend for years in which she lost her mother and father we're all but will have to look after and she's only want to hear is older than a billion dollars to tell her we can't she wouldn't understand but there is much that people don't understand about this disaster feelings here amongst all of the people gathered here are very much ones of respect but of big and growing questions as to why this happened reports about the ship's engines failing about

blocked emergency exits and the electricity failure that stopped any s.o.s. or evacuations from stray. actions showing their criminal cases have been opened to one or two ships passing straight on to the sinking didn't stop to pick up a single person due to one of the vessel was allowed to sail in the first place but for those who have lost loved ones the case will never be closed to the bottom. which in our view live from moscow still had for us our deciding his fate we can bring the london high court session which will rule whether the extradition to sweden that we can be doing in the sun will go ahead. if you were over the phone hacking scandal gripping britain goes international as the us senate takes aim at rupert murdoch's media empire. washington splay and missile shield over europe has been labelled as the main irritant behind

a widening russian american relations by foreign minister sergei lavrov the us has brushed off moscow's concerns over the project maintaining the shields only to protect against attacks from rogue states but some say it's taking advantage of post saw it is to see through our reports u.s. missile defense plans in europe are of course up for discussion here in washington foreign minister lavrov said russian news for him legally binding guarantees that the european missile defense project will not threaten russia security there has been words before washington has many times said that the system would not be against russia but moscow needs to have it on paper some analyst explained that this urge that russia has for getting everything on paper with promises in the past that were not fulfilled for example when the soviet union collapsed russia was assured that nato would not be expanding towards these borders but he did it continued recruiting new members so the bottom line is words are good but words in

a legally binding agreement are better foreign minister lavrov said that's probably the most irritating issue in the relations between the two countries and they were . a huge desire to live it behind and to rather turn it into an area of cooperation threats on the ground that being created on the basis of american national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us is a reasonable way to respond to what is there sieved as being the purpose of the system so we want to stick to the original agreement that there would be no parts of the system which would create risks for the strategic stability and for the but then short in the strategic stability area namely strategic arsenals of the participants of the system russia has offered building the missile shield in europe together but that offer was turned down nato says russia can participate but it can't be a joint project because russia is not part of nato so that moscow says if that's

the case let's base our relations on agreements not just words the show itself according to the state department will have the whole of europe covered my colleague alex a euro fifty went to romania where the u.s. plans to build the radar and found out what it means for the local population take a listen. the voice of the romanian village of the still cannot believe his luck after washington picked this place in romania region to locate a new raider base locals have been all smiles about hypothetical investment of the miserable when we first heard that the us would build a retard base here we were a little bit scared to release who we were informed that having this space with mean better infrastructure and possibly jobs through as lou cools air base in davis who was deserted for a long time. it will have a second chance. proposed to consist of radio facilities and interceptor

rockets it is scheduled to be built by twenty fifteen and will become instrumental in president obama's european anti-missile defense shield in the one nine hundred fifty s. an airbase in the town of davis cell in romania was used by the soviet forces now with washington's plans to place a radar station here locals have a job that should book arrest changed its foreign policy again the place will be occupied by the chinese similar plans were no joke for some other european countries thousands in the czech republic and poland protested against the initiative to have military bases on their soil with mixed results while the first line of interceptor missiles was eventually placed in poland the czechs suddenly pulled out of the anti-missile defense in romania there have been no demonstrations like that at all there is a historical fact that makes one of the most pro american countries in the world he has been explained by our ancestors the better things and the companies came from

the east everybody was expecting the american to rebalance the whole thing so there is this sentiment and this feeling that. the president of the us is contra balance and specific u.s. is contra balance. the presence or. of russia in the region if there is the real case then what security with this new shield provide and most importantly defense from who not even two years since barack obama restructured the bush era european shield scheme moskos delight over the us president's move was replaced by feelings of discontent and concern. with worry that washington does something before informing us of these actions it is unclear what exactly they're creating as soon as we understand that this is them won't be used against russia will have legally. this tension will be resolved. despite being described as fruitful the recent summit between president with

a different nato ambassadors in sochi broke no consensus on missile defense so experts say the issue will remain a thorn in the side for both moscow and washington at least until next year when the next nato russia council meeting will be held in chicago by the construction of the radio facility endeavor solo would most likely be in full swing. reporting from. book arrest in romania we can expound on julia songe continues his fight against extradition at the high court in london sweden wants to question the world's most famous whistleblower over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear extradition to the scandinavian country will open a way for the u.s. to get its hands on him argues laura amatus covering the trial from outside the court building. today is the second day of was expected to be a two day hearing over the appeal of june in

a song say but whether he's to be extradited to sweden we're expecting wednesday to be given to evidence on the hall of the swedish prosecutor's office since yesterday was given a visit to his own defense i phones and left the court last night's completely tight lipped he didn't wave to any of his supporters who were standing outside the court he just walked away which must be a direct instruction from his new legal team that he has high especially to deal with a steering the new legal team seem to have taken on a new strategy that much more conciliatory about this case a much more concerned with european door and specifically the european arrest warrant under which judeans request to be extradited has been requested it's the legal team auguring that the european arrest warrant is invalid because of discrepancy the tension between the allegations that have been made and the testimonies over the two alleged victims that a full counts to be considered ranging from coercion and right up to break and the

defense team has said that there is nothing in the victim's statement that amounts to that and that no evidence of a lack of consent in those statements and three of the full relegations they say wouldn't even amounts to crimes in the u.k. so it's very much the approach that that's taking old say they are drawing attention to the fact that has not been charged in sweden that he's wanted them merely for questioning and they're saying has the prosecution started has he actually been accused of anything and if not then the european arrest warrant is invalid we may be able to expect a verdict at the end of wednesday but we may know the judge may refer the decision to another day he may put it off and give the station a few days or even a few weeks time we're hearing more and reporting there from london and you can find more from our team on our website including the latest. news blogs an expert analysis some of the stories in a fight at r.t. dot com right now include how a world famous fast food chain turned into

a grocery store officially at least adults russia serves up a smart move and save itself a super sized tax bill. also tightening the screws on child molesters chemical castration could be used on convicted paedophiles in russia as a president pushes for tougher punishments. the world's two fastest growing economies india and china appear to have reached an economic faceoff the giants have huge mutual export amounts but it's mostly raw materials on india's part while china sells manufactured goods the an even trade is putting new delhi at a growing disadvantage. explains. its dragon versus tiger in the battle for asian supremacy india and china two of the fastest growing economies with the world's largest population vying for power and prestige in asia and beyond where india led

the way in i t and back office is china race to head in mobilizing its masses onto the factory floor fuelling a huge trade deficit and a reality india is forced to accept. moving. to. india post world class space in nuclear programs yet struggles to create every day jobs making every day goods something this cotton tycoon knows all too well it's cheaper for him to export to china to get the job done then let india buy it back. we make a profit of ten percent more in the international market than the domestic market ironically it's indian efficiency that's part of the problem with supply rapidly. outpacing domestic demand. if we don't export then the cotton prices in india will

crush and farmers will suffer even the original price this will increase the quantity of cotton and even the indian government is encouraging the export of cotton here in the cotton fields of india lies the heart of the indian chinese trade relationship more than seventy percent of the exports from india to china are raw materials like cotton however ninety percent of the exports from china to india are manufactured goods if india is selling well then why should it matter well having a twenty billion dollar gap with your next door neighbor puts power in their hands and makes jobs in savings dry up at home and economists know that only by sewing up a successful manufacturing sector will india's large unskilled workforce be soaked up but it's a blind spot that's leading to blind faith. and we should focus on the. rest of the.

growing and growing maybe. it's a very different world of. indian traders seem satisfied to because the set up means the money keeps rolling in. the benefits in exporting is that we get a bigger volume of cotton and we also get paid on time but new delhi is worried knowing it has to cut its cloth before its economic run of luck is sewn up preassure there are tea in the or india and the taliban's biggest achievement in town here is stats what the group called the assassination of the half brother of afghan president karzai had of the khandahar province volatile region on the border with pakistan jere van dyke who back in two thousand and eight was held by the taliban for forty five days says the killing leaves washington with no one to rely on when it comes to securing the region. well they karzai it was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most

popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to help focus on eastern afghanistan and feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon you know or the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a definite reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. ahmed wali karzai was often accused of lengths was the taliban in afghanistan's

illegal drugs straight ahead of russia's federal drug control service victorian office as a decade of military failures of the coalition forces in the country are helping watch his full interview in just over an hour here in r.t. but here's a quick preview. this september will be the tenth anniversary of that interference it's longer than world war two the situation in afghanistan hasn't improved and it's become even worse and even senior officials like general petraeus for example the military operation in afghanistan says that the number of clashes there increases year after year in fact the number of clashes over the past ten years has increased more than a hundred times the assigned tasks been achieved because we see that the security in afghanistan only got worse it said that drug production cannot be fought because it damages the security situation so it's a kind of closed circle. the

scandal surrounding rupert murdoch's media empire has gone international after u.s. senators called for their own probe into the news corp company if follows allegations that some of murdoch's newspapers attempted to bribe new york policeman for access to the call records of nine eleven victims in britain the. explosive as details of the sheer scope of hacking from royalty to the murder victims and to set in richard addus editor of the day online news service thinks the illegally gained data could be misused and not just by tabloids. i think where this does become a question for national security is the idea that police is selling private phone numbers and private contact details of people like the royal family and the prime minister yes well this is not necessarily the same to sell these things to a newspaper as it would be to sell them to a terror. it's organization but if you can do one you may be able to do the other so yes it's very serious but i think what people i talk to and quite expecting

is for the scandal to go up through rebecca brooks who's the chief executive of news international to james murdoch and james murdoch himself many people say should now step down and take a break. let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world struggling york has been struck another blow as moody's one of the big three credit rating agencies downgraded islands dads to junk status the move is a warning to investors around the world. as the bailed out economy verges on the brink of the. same agency the political and economic storm last week when it did the same to portugal's debt it also prompted finance ministers to vow to be more regulation on credit rating agencies. french lawmakers have voted in favor of continuing the country's military operations in libya the decision was

supported by the majority of the lower house of parliament meanwhile french officials claim colonel gadhafi representatives have told them the libyan leader is ready to discuss surrendering power steven brown contributing editor of the front page online magazine believes the french are looking for an honorable way out of libya. france has just recently called for the rebels to negotiate with gadhafi and so the bombing will stop as soon as. the negotiating table that shows to me that nato is surrendering this surrendering process has begun i think. is continuing just putting up a front of the moment looking for a way so a peace with honor withdrawal they can be they thought was going to be an easy victory. i said way back when. they should i've negotiated with numbers turn their ground troops in the immediately the rebels were too weak to defeat a model of what they were thinking they simply got caught up in. their own human rights and. going through the u.n. waging war of the u.n.

and this is a result you know there's no decision it's costing tens of millions of dollars to billions are being killed libyan civilians would know they've had to sheerin into southern libya to protect the oil facilities i think he's a worse criminal than the shores of the war was never both protecting libyan civilians it was a vote making sure the oil stayed safe with britain and france. well it's now time to take a look at what's happening in business dimitris here with us. and there's a uniform welcome to the program switzerland is a top ten investor in russia the president of the two countries meeting wednesday for the you know gratian of the wholesome cement plant near moscow to discuss a potential free trade agreement that we caught up with the swiss economic minister to find out what investors are looking for when it comes to russia. there is need

their own need for technology here in new york the technology being. offered by the swiss companies to big companies and to smaller companies as well and not the other side we in switzerland people from different branches russian products russian production and development here and there is quite positively and what we do this with being one spaced on a free trade agreement this growth can probably be increased significantly and that's what we are. stakes in seven companies to russia after accepting a bailout for its crisis hit economy these would include gas pipeline companies and to refineries russian technologies corporation and state run gas from our among those interested in the answer it's received an eight hundred million dollar bailout last month as the cash strapped economy burnt through its currency reserves . european commission has removed quotas from coming from russia and belarus the

e.u. says the restrictive tariff set twenty years ago are no longer relevant amid growing fertilizer prices which is what i'll call you world's largest producer by alford currently meets around thirteen percent of europe's demand. u.s. department of energy is said to award a seven hundred thirty million dollar loan to the american unit of russians to manufacture service tell the funds will go to great american factory that supplies u.s. automakers service to all north america provide steel components for general motors ford and chrysler recovery specializes in high technology steel that is lighter and safer than conventional that's. going to the markets now and the world prices are flat after reid a higher them versus but increasingly u.s. crude supplies and prices in europe may hold demand for rule materials both light sweet and brant are down slightly this hour losing four cents and. before central square. across asia markets up positive of the data showed the chinese g.d.p.

expanded a boss an expected pace hong kong property stocks gain those results and we did see china overseas land investment adding around six percent of one point financials are also strong japanese stocks are on the rise with a stronger yen however dampening sentiment and limiting gains this point four percent on the nikkei. in moscow trading kicked off around an hour ago looks flat to positive this putting on point three percent to my six just a notch let's take a look at some of the individual movers on the my sex energy shares a week as well as looking for direction lukoil is down two point two percent carly is up one half percent after that lifting of those ash closures by the e.u. and coal miner spots because continuance rally up another two percent this hour because state run the bank is interested in purchasing assets in the company and we will be back in fifty minutes time we'll update the headlines the next.

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colonel was her job as used to retreat. welcome back you're watching r t and these are the top stories one hundred people are now officially confirmed dead after a russian cruiser sank in the volga river in the country's worst boating disaster divers have been slowly pulling the bodies of victims from the rack of the gary of . washington's missile shield over europe chips away at relations with moscow as the u.s. stands accused of taking advantage of an takes obvious sentiment to secure future bases in europe. world's most famous whistleblower julian sounds continues his bit at the high court in london to find extradition to sweden he's one of there for questioning over sexual assault allegations but his supporters fear sweden will be

only a staging post to the u.s. . all next on our t's crossed peter lavelle and his guest take a look at the political turmoil that spelled the end of the u.s.s.r. twenty years ago. and you can see. a low in welcome to cross talk on people about an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. and

you can. see. the crosstalk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen in dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross the fattiest russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is cross talk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go early is for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here and looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly does any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because murdoch and his people have a really sleazy reputation now we're getting evidence of it. well murdoch has always been hyper ago.